There is, therefore, no long - range political advantage to be gained by an effort to wrap Israel's security in a blanket of
evangelical biblical literalism.
Not exact matches
My third prediction is that the word «
evangelical» will go the way of «fundamentalism» as its adherents become increasingly homogonous and as the word becomes associated with dogmatism regarding politics, science, women's roles, homosexuality, salvation, and
biblical literalism.
Among
evangelicals, for example, belief in
biblical literalism, church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements defined these groups, while among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the Church.
What once would have seemed like an alien Eastern invasion of Christian musical space — a mystical form of
biblical literalism transposed into mesmerizing vibrations — has become an acceptable form of meditation in the
Evangelical community.